Definitely overrated. In 17 years coaching the Titans/Oilers, his teams made the playoffs just 6 times.

I really have no idea how he managed to remain with that organization for as long as he did.

in all fairness, he initially got what I think every head coach should get, unless they're just plain awful and no one in the locker room is supporting him, and that's 5 years at the helm. His first 2 season (1 as an interim coach, and not for the whole season) were bad, but then he had 3 years of 8-8. Certainly not groundbreaking but apparently there was enough potential for the team to stick with him. Especially that last year they must have known something was up because he went 13-3 each of the next 2 seasons including a Super Bowl appearance, a 1-off bad season of 7-9 before bouncing back and having 11-5 and 12-4 seasons respectively. In 2004 he went 5-11 and 2005 went 4-12. That's when he should have been fired. Even if he was fired then, that's still a 12 season run. For the record, he had 2 more playoff runs after this time though.

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Jeff Fischer does indeed suck but I think we've come to the point where we're overstating his suckiness

It's more likely that the game passed him by than anything else and so his teams regularly were the ones that would engage in extracurricular activities to draw penalties..

Steve McNair was great and even an MVP under Fisher. Vince Young was a complete bum who lacked character and intellect(A ridiculously low score of 7 on the wonderlic). Young still went to 2 pro bowls under Fisher and even Kerry Collins had the best season of his career and only pro bowl appearance under Fisher.

While everyone points at Foles winning the Super Bowl after more recently being let go by the guy who drafted him in the first place, no one is pointing at Keenum falling back to earth in Denver.

Fisher’s last three starting quarterbacks, Nick Foles, Case Keenum and Jared Goff combined for a passer rating of 72.6 playing under Fisher. Since those three have managed to escape Fisher, they’ve combined for a passer rating of 98.1. That’s basically the difference between Philip Rivers and Tom Savage. If the quarterback position is the most important in all of football, you do not want Fisher anywhere near your franchise.

And the above was written before Nick Foles MVP performance in Super Bowl LII and Jared Goff's 2018 season.